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As part of their ongoing campaign to publicize the purported “pension bomb” set to detonate sometime next decade, the Empire Center has set up a pension calculator. Private sector workers can calculate what kind of pension they could retire with if they worked for a government entity. Or if their own employers hadn’t done away with pensions sometime in the last few decades.

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